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'Suicides by women in Afghanistan are skyrocketing according to a new report that has come out a year after President Biden catastrophically pulled US forces from the country handing it over to the Taliban.

The despair of Afghanistan women suffering under the deadly oppression of the Taliban is palpable to all women and it should bring great shame to the Biden administration.

One young woman was kept from becoming a doctor and then was forced into a marriage with her cousin who was a heroin addict. She felt she had nothing left to live for and proceeded to take her own life in a country where more women than men commit suicide.'

https://americanwirenews.com/suicide-discovery-whi...

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LurkerMom: ...President Biden catastrophically pulled US forces from the country handing it over to the Taliban.

Completely delusional.

The Trump administration in February 2020 negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 imprisoned Taliban soldiers and set a date certain of May 1, 2021, for the final withdrawal.

And the Trump administration kept to the pact, reducing U.S. troop levels from about 13,000 to 2,500, even though the Taliban continued to attack Afghan government forces and welcomed al-Qaeda terrorists into the Taliban leadership.

The decision to leave the country was originally negotiated under former president Trump and allowed the Taliban to strengthen their position against the US-backed government.

Biden certainly made mistakes in the Afghanistan withdrawal but Trump made them too. And what are you suggesting anyway, that America should have 13,000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan?

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-...

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commonone: 'Biden certainly made mistakes in the Afghanistan withdrawal but Trump made them too.'

At the time of retreat from Afghanistan Biden was president, not Trump. Biden gave the orders
with stern warnings from his Generals not to surrender to the Taliban.

'Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan'

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/28/top-gener...

'Contradicting Biden, top generals say they recommended a small force stay in Afghanistan'

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pentagon...

'Pentagon told Biden not to withdraw from Afghanistan'

https://rollcall.com/2021/09/28/pentagon-told-bide...

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Nobody told Biden to slapdash pull everyone out by an arbitrary date that he himself made up.

Nobody told Biden to abandon billions of dollars of equipment to the Taliban.

Nobody told Biden to abandon thousands of Afghans who helped the US over the years.

Nobody told Biden to leave behind thousands of American citizens.

Nobody told Biden to fly everyone out at the last second such that people fell to their deaths from the airplanes.

Nobody told Biden to do any of that. It's all on him.

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